Attend college in Michigan for free! Legislature may launch pilot program

The latest, greatest idea for making a college education affordable sounds simple enough — students can attend school for free.

But there’s a catch.

In return for free tuition, students have to agree to pay a fixed percentage of their future income for a specified number of years to a special fund that would pay other students’ college bills.

Article here. 

Stop all the gloom and doom! Legal market about to boom!

Read Keep Calm and Carry On, 27 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 55 (2014), by Rene ́Reich-Graefe of Western New England University School of Law, who takes on those who forecast a relentlessly negative future for the legal profession:

[R]ecent law school graduates and current and future law students are standing at the threshold of the most robust legal market that ever existed in this country—a legal market which will grow, exist for, and coincide with, their entire professional career.

via State Bar of Michigan blog. 

Former IRS director dies: remembered for resisting Nixon's pressure to audit political adversaries

Randolph W. Thrower, a Republican lawyer who headed the IRS under President Richard M. Nixon from 1969 to 1971 before losing his job for resisting White House efforts to punish its enemies through tax audits, died March 8 at his home in Atlanta.

article here.

For the first time since 2010, number of LSAT takers has risen

Has the law-school crisis turned a corner? That’s one way of looking at the latest LSAT data.
The number of law school admission tests administered in February was up 1.1% from the previous year, according to new figures released by the Law School Admission Council.
That may not sound like a significant change, but it’s the first time since June 2010 that the number of people who took the standardized exam increased as compared to the year before.

article here. 

More sentencing to come in Holland "Latin Kings" case

The federal prosecution has turned Latin Kings against each other. As part of plea deals, defendants are required to provide truthful testimony against others standing trial, which would include Eric Ruibal, who founded the Holland Latin Kings two decades ago.

Arturo DeLeon will be sentenced later this week, article here. 

The NSA is intercepting attorney-client privileged communications

This last Monday, according to the ABA Journal, NSA chief Keith Alexander acknowledged the NSA is scooping up attorney-client communications, but said that it is “affording appropriate protection” to those communications.

article here

Students sue law schools over employment reporting figures

This isn't fresh news (sorry). It's a link to an article in a Law Journal about this "trend" of former students suing their schools for what was reported as employment figures.

article here.